Ian Mullins ships out from Liverpool, England, where he toils in the NHS. The music-themed collection Laughter In The Shape Of A Guitar (UB) struck a new chord in 2015. The chapbook Almost Human (Original Plus), concerning his ongoing battle with Asperger Syndrome, was released into the care of the community in 2017. The novel Number 1 Red, a tale of pro-wrestling and property wars, was self-published the same year. The superhero-themed collection Masks and Shadows (Wordcatcher Publishing) took to the skies in 2019 and refuses to come down.

Poem written 9th April 2020

The Woman Who Kisses Goodnight

If I pass her on the street

she might remember me

by a stat on my chart,

or the meds she prescribed;

a bed she ordered moved

to a quieter corner

where I could see from a window

people walking the street

as though no one told them,

or they did not want

to know, that the very ground

they walk is unstable now,

and liable to give way

without notice.

But she knows, this stranger

on the street

I'll pass unknowing,

never having looked

behind her mask

to the mouth he loves,

the cheek once kissed:

the woman

who kisses goodnight

to her kids

from the safety of

their bedroom door.